HomeSite was an HTML editor originally developed at Borland Delphi in 1995 by Nick Bradbury . Designed for direct editing, or manual programming, of HTML and other website languages, HomeSite also has the ability to design WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get, which means that what you see is what you get), which It simplifies and offers more speed in the design of simple websites. In March of 1997 , Allaire Corporation of Cambridge , Massachusetts (founded by Jeremy and JJ Allaire brothers) acquired HomeSite. Macromedia obtained a copy of HomeSite to include in Windows versions of Dreamweaver 1.0 . Macromedia was later acquired by Adobe in 2005 . In May of 2009 , Adobe decided to cease development of HomeSite and is no longer compatible with the product, but still maintain a forum for active users.
characteristics
- Among its most useful features we can have a CSS style editor , which allows us to define styles for an entire page or website.
- It has very good treatment of the site’s files, with a panel on the left that allows us to select any file on our system to edit it. The same panel of files can be converted into a tag inspector, which allows you to modify any attribute almost instantly and with almost no knowledge of HTML , in a multi-topic help, on a website map.
- It has a custom interface that includes a very complete toolbar to place from paragraphs or images to ASP or Cold Fusion controls, through tables, forms. It also supports special HTML characters and has tools like code and link validators.
- It is widely capable of scripting to automate tasks or perform advanced tasks using JavaScript or VBScript .
- The macro recorder can record a series of actions to create scripts for later playback
- Enhanced code snippets save time creating and saving reusable code blocks, and can request replacement of variables when used.
- Customizable color-coding syntax for ASP , CFML , CSS , HTML , Java , JavaScript , JSP , [[Perl]], PHP , SQL , VBScript , VTML, and XHTML . Syntax coloring syntax and examples are available to help users extend or write their own.
- The integrated help browser displays installed help documents or sets of documents in HTML format added by the user. Useful for local copies of standards, tutorials, language references, etc.
- Project management and built-in FTP help manage and load websites
- Integrated tools for checking page links, document weight, and spell checking.
- It works with source and version control software that supports SCCI and with other packages through custom toolbars.
- Assign keyboard shortcuts to almost any function, your own scripts or code snippets
- The built-in browser view and external browser list allow you to quickly view your edited document in your choice of browsers.
- Available in French and German (previous versions only, 5.5 is in English only).
- XHTML 1.0 support .
- Extensive library of the right-click menu, including the ability to select an entire label.
